On April 8, 2022, a TochkaU missile hit Kramatorsk Station, killing about fifty people. Officially, this missile would have been decommissioned by the Russian military in 2020 and replaced with the newer Iskander missile. In a tweet The investigative group OSINT Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) reported an image from the Russian channel Kuban24 TV showing how the missiles were still being used by the Moscow army in February 2021. An August 24, 2021 article on the Vpk.name website mentions the Russian Army’s 47th Missile Brigade, highlighting one distinctive feature: the equipment of the TochkaU missiles. Only this year, as TASS reported in a Jan. 20 article, the brigade would have received the new Iskander missiles, just a month before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A video published on February 15, 2022 by the official Facebook page of the ZVEZDA (Телеканал “ЗВЕЗДА”) TV channel openly states that TochkaU were used during the military exercise on Belarusian territory.
The deployment of the missile is specifically mentioned on the Russian TV site, while the Belta site in Belta reports the names of the groups deployed: the 465th “TochkaU” Missile Brigade and the 77th “Polonaise” Separate Rocket Artillery Division, both Belorussian .
On April 8, 2022, Ukraine accused Russia of launching a TockaU missile in the Chernihiv region. According to the Ukrainians, the missile was launched from Belarus.
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